MuPDF Droplet
(c) 2017 by Adrian Zaugg under GPLv2
MuPDF Droplet is a small GUI application for OS X to easily open a file with
the command line programm MuPDF. MuPDF Droplet is a graphical frontend to the
command line program MuPDF, which does not provide a graphical file open
dialog.
Just drop a PDF file on MuPDF Droplet's application icon or into its application
window. This will call mupdf and load the dropped file with it.
Requirements
You need to install mupdf or mupdf-x11 command line binary and an X server
like X-Quartz for MuPDF Droplet to work. You can install mupdf from MacPorts [1],
Homebrew [2], Fink [3] or source [4]. X-Quartz is available as a binary application
bundle[5].
Installation
Just copy the MuPDF Droplet application found in the distribution DMG to your
Application folder.
Configuration
MuPDF Droplet doesn't need to be configured.
Uninstallation
Drag MuPDF Droplet to your trash and empty it. MuPDF Droplet does not write any
files to your computer's disk.
Troubleshooting
In case MuPDF Droplet can't find the version of mupdf command line programm you have
installed, please check first whether the executable mupdf resp. mupdf-x11 is in your
PATH and the executable bit is really set. If your version has a different name or still
can't be found, you can open the MuPDF Droplet's bash script in a text editor and set
the variable MUPDF in the beginning of the script pointing to your binary's location
including its name. Edit Line 7 and set the variable MUPDF accordingly. For example:
MUPDF="/usr/local/bin/mupdf-my-special-version"
You find the bash script by right-clicking MuPDF Droplet.app, chose "Show Package
Contents" and navigate to "Contents/Resources". There you find it, it's called "script".
License
MuPDF Droplet stands under the GNU Public License Version 2. You can find the full
license within the distribution DMG or by visiting [6]. You may not charge money
to distribute MuPDF Droplet.
Source
MuPDF Droplet was created using Platypus [7]. You can find the MuPDF Droplet's
Platypus profile in the distribution DMG.
Download
The newest version of MuPDF Droplet can be found under:
ftp://ente.limmat.ch/pub/software/applications/MuPDFDroplet/
Feedback:
Please use the web form under: http://ente.limmat.ch/feedback/
Version History
v0.0.1 2017-01-10 initial release
Links
[1] https://www.macports.org/
[2] http://brew.sh/
[3] http://www.finkproject.org/
[4] https://mupdf.com/
[5] https://www.xquartz.org/
[6] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
[6] http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus